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MR GATES
Made to measure

Metal railings

Railings for front gardens, driveways, boundaries and estate frontages, drawn to your opening and made in our own workshop in Berkhamsted. Steel, aluminium and traditional wrought iron work, finished to last outdoors.

We measure, make and fit. Free site survey, and no standard panel forced to fit a gap it does not suit.

Traditional black metal garden railings on a brick wall outside a period townhouse
A long run of black garden railings on a brick wall in autumn
Traditional black railings along a period townhouse frontage

Garden railings, driveway railings and boundary railings, made to fit

Most of what we make is for the front of a house. A run of garden railings along the boundary, a set either side of a driveway entrance, or a low run on top of a wall.

What railings actually do for a front garden

  • They put a line back on a boundary that has been open since the original railings came out.
  • They keep children and dogs off the pavement and the road.
  • They stop the front garden being used as a shortcut or a parking space.
  • They finish the front of a house, which on a period property is often the real reason people ring.

Measured, not ordered

Openings are never square, walls are never level and ground falls away. We measure the run on site, take the fall into account, and make the panels to suit. That is the difference between railings that look as though they belong to the house and railings that look as though they came flat packed.

Made to fit

Railings on period frontages

The railings we make

Garden and front boundary railings

Low to mid height runs along the front of a property, on the ground or on top of an existing wall.

Driveway railings

Runs either side of the entrance, with or without a matching gate across the opening.

Wall mounted railings

Fixed into the top of a brick or stone wall, with the fixings set into the masonry rather than surface screwed.

Estate railings

Traditional round bar estate railings for longer boundaries, paddocks and larger frontages.

Bar and panel styles

Plain vertical bar, traditional wrought iron detail, laser cut panels, or a pattern matched to something already on the property.

Finishes

Galvanised, powder coated in the colour you choose, or painted in a traditional finish.

From measure to fitted

How a railings job runs

  1. Free site survey

    We come out, measure the run, look at the wall or the ground, and check the fall.

  2. Drawing and quote

    You see what you are getting before anything is made.

  3. Made in our workshop

    Cut, welded and finished in Berkhamsted.

  4. Fitted

    Core drilled and grouted into the ground, or fixed into the masonry, depending on what the survey found.

A gate to match. If the railings run either side of a driveway, the obvious next question is what goes across the opening. We make matching gates, and automate them if you want them to open from the car. Automated gates.

Commercial

Estate, frontage and site railings

Railings on a commercial frontage, a school boundary, a housing scheme or an estate are usually specified for appearance as much as for containment: somewhere a perimeter has to look like a boundary rather than like a compound.

We make and fit those, and where the same site needs a genuine security perimeter behind or beyond the frontage, we do that too.

commercial security fencing

commercial and specifier enquiries

Made here

Made in the workshop, not ordered from a catalogue

We have had our own manufacturing facility since 2014. Design, fabrication and finishing are ours, which is why a run of railings can be made to a drawing and to a measurement rather than to the nearest available size.

Where railings involve load bearing or welded structural steel, our factory production control is certified to BS EN 1090-1 and BS EN 1090-2 at execution class EXC2, certificate 2273-CPR-4271.

We also work under our sister brand MG Group on architectural metalwork, including balustrade systems: see MG Group. Same company, different brand.

Common questions

Do you make railings to fit, or fit standard panels?

We make them to fit. Everything is measured on site first, and the panels are made in our own workshop to that measurement, taking the fall of the ground and the line of the wall into account. We can supply plainer standard designs too if that is what suits the job, but nothing is cut down on the day to make it fit an opening it was not made for.

What finishes are available and how long do they last?

Galvanised, powder coated in the colour you choose, or painted in a traditional finish. Which one is right depends on the metal, on how exposed the position is and on how the railings are meant to look, and those three do not always point the same way: a coastal or roadside frontage is a harder life than a sheltered front garden, and a period property often wants a painted finish that a modern one does not. We are not going to put a number of years on a web page, because a finish that is right for one frontage and wrong for another would make that number meaningless. What we will do is tell you at the free site survey which finish suits your position, and what looking after it involves.

Can you match existing railings on a period property?

Usually, yes. We do traditional wrought iron detail as well as plain bar, and we can make a run to a pattern taken from something already on the property, whether that is the rest of the frontage, a neighbouring run or a surviving section. Everything is measured on site first and made in our own workshop to that measurement, so a new run follows the fall of the ground and the line of the wall rather than arriving as a standard panel. Bring us a photograph of what you are matching, or let us come and look at it, and we will tell you honestly how close we can get before you commit to anything.

Recent railings

Railings we have made and fitted

Send us a photograph of the frontage

It is usually enough for us to tell you what will suit it, and then we come and measure properly.